Ezekiel 22

Ezekiel 22:9

In thee they eat upon the mountains.

In the midst of thee, there are those, that offer idolatrous sacrifices to their false gods, in their high places.

Ezekiel 22:10

In thee have they discovered their father’s nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

Amongst thy people, there are those, who have committed filthiness with their own parents; and have lain with those women, which have been separated for their legal or natural uncleannesses.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Son of man, the house of Israel was to me as the most precious metal, but now it is shamefully degenerated into dross; and the best of them is either extremely imbased with their sins, or else become nothing but mere offal and corruption. XXII. 19, 20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. Behold therefore, saith the Lord, Because ye are thus depraved, I will deal with you accordingly: I will gather you all up, as into one furnace, which shall be Jerusalem; and there I will send the fire of my judgment upon you, and consume you. So verse 21, and 22.

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Thou art a land notoriously unclean with thine abominable sins, and therefore shalt be seized upon by my judgments, without mitigation: when my fire shall flame up to consume thee, there shall not be so much as a shower of rain to fall upon thee, for the quenching thereof.

Ezekiel 22:28

And her prophets have doubled them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them.

Their prophets have soothed them up in their sins; and, in a base flattery, have spoken plausible tidings to them, no less false than pleasing.

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, &c.

I sought for some faithful and innocent man amongst them, that might stand up, and intercede with me for the removal or protraction of my judgments.